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The reform aims to squeeze more out of them: by banning tax consolidation, which enables big firms to offset profits in one business with losses from another; and by slashing their ability to write off employee benefits for tax purposes.
"Trading standards officers work hard to ensure that products pose no risk to consumers, but as their budgets are slashed, their ability to identify problems, inspect premises and prosecute wrongdoers has become severely limited," she said.
The strategy's biggest weakness is that it assumes that badly hobbled countries, starting with Greece, can regain their ability to service their debts by slashing their budget deficits.
Despite popular resistance, governments are racing to stay ahead of the bond markets by slashing their budgets.
In theory businesses and workers should quickly adjust to a deflationary shock, by slashing their prices and wages.
Americans have also improved their personal balance sheets by slashing their outstanding credit card debt to $855 billion today from more than $1 trillion in 2008, according to Federal Reserve data.
His instinct in July was to punish the hardest-working and the lowest-paid, by slashing their tax credits.
HTC tried to downplay expectations for their Q4 performance in November by slashing their revenue forecasts by 20%, but the drop still must have stung.
Some companies have cut costs by $80, slashing their break-even points as well.
Those actors portraying legionnaires learned to fight by thrusting, not slashing their weapons.
